How to remove smell from NES cartridge?
I recently got myself a Batman on NES on ebay, then a week later it arrives just so I can open it up and smell the horrid smell of old cheese and rotten ass. I've tried to lysol that bitch and that did remove most of the smell, however at the bottom of the cartidge just that whole section reeks of the smell, and the worst part is I put that shit in my Nintendo, the same one I use to play such classics like Contra and Zelda which don't smell like rotten ass left in the sun for 3 days. For the love of god someone please help me.
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I have a car lot and have had cars in the past that smell horrid even after detail. My two go-tos are baking soda and coffee beans. Perhaps sealing it atop some coffee beans in a ziploc bag?
Thanks for the help I'll give it a try. What I'm afraid of though is what if every spec of dust on the pins smells like that as if he scooped the cartridge in his dog's shit.
Heavy Licking!!
I knew you liked cheese, but rotten ass is news to me
I have a car lot and have had cars in the past that smell horrid even after detail. My two go-tos are baking soda and coffee beans. Perhaps sealing it atop some coffee beans in a ziploc bag?
Thanks for the help I'll give it a try. What I'm afraid of though is what if every spec of dust on the pins smells like that as if he scooped the cartridge in his dog's shit.
I think we all assume you cleaned any potential dust regardless of smell. It's just part of the process before putting some other cartridge into your system.
Get some isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs from a drug store and go to town on the pins. People suggest the highest concentration but really any will do and even Nintendo's own cleaning kit says to use a weak solution when they tell you to add equal parts distilled water without even telling you what concentration to start with! Anything near 100% is so hard to come by that it's unlikely that they assumed users had access to it. You will only find 99.9% and above locally if you have something like Fry's Electronics selling electronics cleaning grade isopropyl (not gonna find it with the drugstore rubbing alcohol). If you're going that far you might as well upgrade from cotton swabs to 1-Up Cards, which are a product specifically made for cleaning retro game cartridges. If going after a smell then swabs are going to get in all the crevices of the plastic better anyway.
Dryer sheets for a few days or weeks. Just wrap it and set it aside for a while
this, it has never failed me for getting the smell of smoke or stank off a cartridge.
Dryer sheets for a few days or weeks. Just wrap it and set it aside for a while
Huh. Noted.
Dryer sheets for a few days or weeks. Just wrap it and set it aside for a while
Huh. Noted.
works on cardboard too. Flatten the box, stick a folded sheet in and something on top to keep it flat
Leave it outside for a few weeks? Just hope none of the squirrels in the area collect nes
believe me, I've learned my lesson after last time. Fuckin squirrels
Thank you to everyone who has contributed methods I will try them out and hopefully they work, but I have some bad news. The smell got into the NES and thank god the console has a door on it because if it didn't my whole room would smell like a baby's shit filled ass crack. Yeah I know I say ass alot, but now I have 3 options replace the cartridge tray, trade in the whole NES for something like a top loader which I don't have to worry about this shit, or find some method to clean it. So if anyone can help me with this it would be the biggest help in the world because I don't want anyone else losing their nose virginity when they walk into my room.
Stick a dryer sheet in it.
Smells like cheesy troll ass and fresh cut spring flowers strewn across a babbling brook with a hint of lemon.
Ed, Edd, n Eddy?
Smells like cheesy troll ass and fresh cut spring flowers strewn across a babbling brook with a hint of lemon.
Ed, Edd, n Eddy?
Lol yup, you get a gold coloured star made from tin.
Smells like cheesy troll ass and fresh cut spring flowers strewn across a babbling brook with a hint of lemon.
Ed, Edd, n Eddy?
Lol yup, you get a gold coloured star made from tin.
now I want a jawbreaker
Smells like cheesy troll ass and fresh cut spring flowers strewn across a babbling brook with a hint of lemon.
Ed, Edd, n Eddy?
Lol yup, you get a gold coloured star made from tin.
now I want a jawbreaker
I gotcha jawbreaker right here mang.
If the smell transferred so readily, I wonder if there was a stink bug, Ladybug, or Harvestman crawling around in the NES or the cartridge and it got squished when the game was inserted? Stink bugs and ladybugs do like to congregate/hibernate indoors and it's conceivable that one might think the NES is a good hiding spot.
My god I think you're right, there is a dead one on top of my fan.